{"id":11953,"date":"2010-01-05T15:58:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T23:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/space-heater-causes-bedroom-fire-in-kent\/"},"modified":"2010-01-05T15:58:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T23:58:13","slug":"space-heater-causes-bedroom-fire-in-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/space-heater-causes-bedroom-fire-in-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Space heater causes bedroom fire in Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bedroom fire caused an estimated $5,000 damage Monday night to a Kent house on the West Hill after a space heater tipped over and ignited clothing on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters from Kent, Des Moines and South King County Fire and Rescue responded to the fire at about 10:35 p.m. Monday at a house in the 25100 block of 22nd Avenue South, just west of Pacific Highway South.<\/p>\n<p>Kent fire investigators determined a space heater caused the fire, according to a Kent Fire Department media release.<\/p>\n<p>Residents called 911 when they smelled smoke and found a fire in a back bedroom. They immediately exited the home. Nobody was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the fire in the bedroom.<\/p>\n<p>The residents of the home are staying with relatives in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Kent Fire officials remind residents to keep combustibles such as paper, cardboard and clothing a safe distance from portable space heaters to prevent fires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bedroom fire caused an estimated $5,000 damage Monday night to a Kent house on the West Hill after a space heater tipped over and ignited clothing on the floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-11953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11953"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}